Feras
Feras and the alternative transliteration Firas is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Feras
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Feras and the alternative transliteration Firas is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Feras
Feras first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1976, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1990: 21 births, good for #2,952 nationwide. About 25% of every Feras on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Feras last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 480 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Feras
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Names that sound like Feras
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About the name Feras
Feras is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 480 births in the dataset. Feras's peak popularity came in 1990 when it ranked #2,952. Use the chart and map above to compare Feras's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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